OC-3 technology is a type of bandwidth transmission. It stands for Optical Carrier 3 because it carries data on the third level of a synchronous optical network, which is a network architecture with a ...

Sonet (Synchronous Optical Network) is a high-speed, physical layer network designed to carry large volumes of traffic over relatively long distances on fiber optic cabling using lasers. Sonet ...

HORSHAM, Pa. — Motorola Inc.'s broadband communications systems group here today announced an agreement to buy Synchronous Inc. of San Jose to expand its infrastructure products for optical networking ...

Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio analysts forecast the global optical network hardware market size to grow to USD 24.99 billion by 2021, at a CAGR of close to 13% over the forecast period, according ...

A project by the North West Development Agency will provide Manchester with a synchronous 100Mbps fibre optic network – and could serve to show how important a decent infrastructure could be to the UK ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...